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Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Detroit, Michigan, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Built and led a team of eight highly-skilled Product Designers dedicated to designing Cash App's Banking experiences—providing regular feedback, coaching, and guidance to ensure our team and our cross-functional partners upheld Cash App's high bar for quality in the products we shipped.Partnered with the Head of Product for Banking to set a clear vision and strategy for how we would achieve our goals of making Cash App the primary bank of choice for our 55M and growing monthly active customers.Served as a key leader of Banking's functional leads team, representing Design and supporting Banking's mission for the ~150-person cross-functional Banking org Collaborated closely with Customer Insights to ensure our designs and product strategy were customer-focused and solved the most pressing and impactful needs in our customers' financial journeys.Mentored and coached other design leaders at Cash App, contributing to career development best practices and efforts to empower teams to move quickly and effectively through our review processChampioned the Banking mission and vision to the rest of the design org, influencing key app architecture improvements and design system updates to support our goals while aligning with other business and design objectives

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Built and led a team of seven highly-skilled Product Designers and Content Designers dedicated to crafting customer-facing experiences and internal tools supporting our Risk organization.Collaborated closely with key product leads within Risk to set the vision and strategy for how we worked to protect Square and our customers from millions in losses on our platform due to fraudulent activity or disputes.Served as a leader within Risk Core—a cross-functional leadership team for Risk's 300+ person org.Launched Risk's flagship customer-facing products (Risk Manager and Contracts) to give customers more control and confidence in how they managed risk for their own business and risk tolerance.Hired the first Service Designer at Square and shaped hiring practices and our design process to make service design an influential role within the broader design org while maintaining a high bar for Square's visual design craft in the experiences we delivered to customers.Championed Risk's mission and vision to the broader Square Design team to up-level collaboration and prioritize initiatives that aided in Risk's success.Mentored and coached other design leaders at Square and helped shape Square's design hiring process to remove bias and calibrate the evaluation of candidates better against Square's design career ladder.

Provo, Ut, Us

Built and led a team of ~8 talented Product Designers dedicated to designing and shaping Vivint's native iOS and Android mobile apps.Collaborated closely with the Directors of Product and Engineering to define the strategic vision of the Core Apps vertical (~80-person cross-functional team) to meet the needs of our one million daily active users who trusted Vivint for the security and automation of their homes.Member of Innovation Leadership—a select group of cross-functional leads responsible for shaping and influencing how our ~300-person innovation team worked to achieve our shared goals.Developed Vivint's design career ladder to better calibrate our diverse team and ensure equity in hiring, promotions, and developmental feedback.

Provo, Ut, Us

High-level IC in a pivotal moment of the Design team's growth and impact on Vivint's mission and vision. Shaped the trajectory of the team and set the bar for design while contributing directly to critical feature launches and development.

Park City, Ut, Us

Managed and directed the growth, development and daily output of Backcountry’s Design Team—a multi-disciplined team of 15 UX Designers, Managers, and Creative Services.Worked with the VP of Product & Design to clearly define and set the vision for the future of our design team and product experience goals.Collaborated with key business leadership to establish and maintain a culture of design.Developed and implemented Backcountry's Design career ladder to ensure better calibration and equity in hiring, promotions, and developmental feedback

Park City, Ut, Us

Managed and directed the growth, development and daily output of five of Backcountry’s seven UX Designers.Recruited and hired top talent to continually grow our UX team.

Park City, Ut, Us

Lead designer on varying product teams defining and directly influencing the user experience of Backcountry’s customer-facing suite of ten e-commerce sites.

Greenville, Sc, Us

Manage the success and timeliness of all print, web and marketing projects across all departments of the OOBE brand and its existing customer base.

Greenville, Sc, Us

Lead designer of all print, web and marketing projects across all departments of the OOBE brand and its existing customer base.

Managed and executed on the design initiatives of clients alongside the Art Director from my second internship. I learned invaluable design negotiation and communication skills and built my love and passion for seeing brands come to life through interactive experiences.

Greenville, Sc, Us

Responsible for the conception, design, and production of vinyl signage and display needs at Bob Jones University and the clients of its Creative Services department. I learned invaluable time and project management skills, how to apply client direction to a project, and how to carry a project from conception to final production.

3 months at a national award winning ad agency gave me insight into the advertising world, a front row seat to a winning pitch, and the opportunity to work with clients such as the State of South Carolina, AAF Greenville, and Piggly Wiggly.

My first foray into the “real-world” of design came early, after only 3 semesters of design classes. I was afforded the opportunity to participate in work for Ford, Chrysler, Volkswagon, and Toyota. My quick learning skills and attention to detail earned me the respect of my colleagues and was able to work on a number of projects independently by the end of the summer.